BANS LINKS
The BANS cannot, for obvious reasons, recommend specific dealers or auction houses – but these sites are well worth a visit…
Numismatic Societies and Organisations
The Royal Numismatic Society,the RNS and the British Numismatic Society (BNS) are the leading academic numismatic societies in the UK. These web sites offer full details of the Societies’ programmes, publications, prizes, and history.
British Numismatic Trade Association (BNTA). Ethics and details. List of members.
Mints
The Royal Mint, lots of offers from their own coin club.
Monnaie de Paris, French National Coinage Museum in Paris. Site (various languages) gives history of coinage plus details of exhibition displays.
Dave the Moneyer The website of Dave Greenhalgh who produces coins in the Medieval manner.
The London Mint Office The London Mint Office is a trusted and respected partner for a large number of British coin collectors.
Museums
The British Museum. This famous institution has a collection of over a million coins, and the HSBC Money Gallery is well worth a visit.
Department of Coins and Medals What’s on and how to contact them.
The Fitzwilliam Museum Department of Coins & Medals. An excellent site, well worth a visit. Their Early Medieval Corpus is now on line – this is an attempt to record all single finds of coins minted between AD 410 – 1180 and discovered in the British Isles. Currently 2,700 items are catalogued. Details of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles can also be found on this comprehensive site.
Hunterian Museum. The new permanent numismatic exhibitions based on the renowned 18th-century cabinet of Doctor William Hunter, who bequeathed his collections to the University of Glasgow, and supplemented by later additions.
Numismatic Magazines and Publishers
Token Publishing, US published magazines (Coin News, Medal News) but with interesting information (including the recent quarter dollars) and links.
Numismatic Web Listings
All About Coins. A digest of interesting and useful information
The Celtic Coin Index. Details of over 28,500 coins are held on the Celtic Coin Index, and this web site has full details of how it can be referenced. The prototype on line index is now available.
Coinsheet Numismatic Directory. A directory of worldwide links to many coin clubs and dealers.
Coin Today. Daily Numismatic and Gold Investment news, from the US.
ebay.co.uk. A well-known online auction house with a lot of UK-specific numismatic content. Plus a lot of world numismatics and paranumismatics (exonumia to those in the USA)
English Jettons A comprehensive new listing of all known English Jettons. These coin-like aids to calculation wer made at the Royal Mint in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Learn about the field of Numismatics. An American site introducing Numismatics to newcomers. The site has a very extensive listing of numismatic websites.
Soho mint. History West Midlands | Matthew Boulton and the Steam-Powered Soho Mint (historywm.com)
The Great Seals of England and Great Britain. Images and some details of The Great Seals used in every reign from William The Conqueror to Elizabeth II.